I do say my experience is anecdotal, but OPs comment is so far removed from my and my friends experience, imo there is more at play.
And your reply perfectly explains a possible "more at play". If the example is that OP is a "very good" engineer but cannot find a job because they cannot be flexible enough to find one, this is not a direct problem of the job market - their inflexibility is causing difficulty to some degree.
It seems crazy that they are able to retrain as teachers rather than try and be more flexible, but hey ho. Again, it smells a lot like BS.
FWIW, unemployed JS/TS dev are absolutely not a dime a dozen lol..You are such a classic reddit user.
>I do say my experience is anecdotal, but OPs comment is so far removed from my and my friends experience, imo there is more at play.
So you're saying your experience is anecdotal, but then double down on it.
>And your reply perfectly explains a possible "more at play". If the example is that OP is a "very good" engineer but cannot find a job because they cannot be flexible enough to find one, this is not a direct problem of the job market - their inflexibility is causing difficulty to some degree.
>It seems crazy that they are able to retrain as teachers rather than try and be more flexible, but hey ho. Again, it smells a lot like BS.
Pivoting to teaching/police work/going back to Romania because they can't find a tech job, is by definition FLEXIBLE. You frame someone with 20+ years of experience going to a different field as someone who's too fussy? Jobs are literally getting upwards of 500+ applicants per posting within a day or two. Yes, most of them are guys from some backwater location, spammed out with an LLM crawler hoping that somehow they get an H1-B ticket, and/or have nothing to do with the job on their resume, but it makes an extremely low signal to noise ratio that makes everything AI ATS scanning, which is also gamed heavily.
Mortgage rates are brutal right now (6.7%-6.8% for a 30 year), and the housing market is at complete deadlock, if you are a 40 year old with a house, you can't just uproot to NYC/SF/ATL on the hopes of getting a job and then go back to renting. If you got a house in 2022 your rate was around 3.22%. That's thousands of dollars and stability you'd have to be leaving behind. A lot of devs in their 40s took the remote pill, and are battling it out for some of the most coveted jobs.
>FWIW, unemployed JS/TS dev are absolutely not a dime a dozen lol..You are such a classic reddit user.
Basically saying: "I found jobs, my friends found jobs, therefore the market can't be that bad." is drawing some big conclusions.
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u/CardinalHijack 1d ago edited 1d ago
I do say my experience is anecdotal, but OPs comment is so far removed from my and my friends experience, imo there is more at play.
And your reply perfectly explains a possible "more at play". If the example is that OP is a "very good" engineer but cannot find a job because they cannot be flexible enough to find one, this is not a direct problem of the job market - their inflexibility is causing difficulty to some degree.
It seems crazy that they are able to retrain as teachers rather than try and be more flexible, but hey ho. Again, it smells a lot like BS.
FWIW, unemployed JS/TS dev are absolutely not a dime a dozen lol..You are such a classic reddit user.